• MimicJar@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        These tweets are from October 2016. Elon sucks but this isn’t a new problem. Twitter has been a shithole for a long time.

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        1 year ago

        Free speech isn’t a bad thing, people shouldn’t be censored for being fucking morons especially a tweet like this. It’s a little scary how the left/progressives have done a complete 180 on free speech in the last like, 10 years.

        I always though the twitter community fact check was a very good control on tweets like this though, someone says something dumb and you get a direct community-voted response attached to the bottom of it. Resulted in some hilarious owns.

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          1 year ago

          What do you mean by “the left/progressives have done a complete 180 on free speech in the last like, 10 years.”?

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          And if it wasn’t for the fact that Twitter boosts the idiots and smacks down people for rebuttals, I’d agree. For the free speech absolutism to work, it needs to be absolute, not “free speech” being “things the idiot in chief agrees with”